Santoro v. Accenture Federal Services LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-01-0420, 15 pp.) (Shedd, J.) No. 12-2561, May 5, 2014; USDC at Alexandria, Va.; 4th Cir. Holding: A former manager for a government contractor who is suing for age discrimination cannot ...

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EEOC v. Baltimore County (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-01-0311, 17 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 13-1106, March 31, 2014; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Legg, J.) Holding: A Baltimore County employee retirement plan that requires older employees to pay a greater percentage of ...

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Last-minute affidavits that salvage a case are the stuff on which cheap legal thrillers are built. But for one former car salesman suing for age discrimination, it really did come in just the nick of time. Arnold Johnson says that ...

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EEOC v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Comm’n (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-01-0131, 17 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 09-2263, Jan. 26, 2011; USDC at Greenbelt, Md. (Williams, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission claims legislative immunity against an EEOC ...

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Dallie Cherry v. Perdue Farms, Incorporated; and Stacy Mills. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-02-0087, 11 pp.) (Flanagan, J.), USDC for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Northern Division, No. 2:10-CV-23-FL, December 27, 2010. Click here for the full text of the ...

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An attorney with an employment-discrimination case will most likely take the case to the nearest county courthouse to be heard by a state judge. But just as likely, the defense counsel for the employer will have it removed to federal ...

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Fox v. Alexander County. Where an EMS worker was demoted after a slow response time, the case is triable because the plaintiff can show that other younger workers were not disciplined for similar response times and because other facts . . .

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A 46-year-old Alexander County emergency medical services supervisor who was demoted when his team failed to meet a targeted response time has a triable case of age discrimination, a federal judge ruled late last month. The case, Fox v. Alexander County, has drawn national attention among labor lawyers because the plaintiff survived a summary-judgment motion from the employer - an unusual event in federal court. "It's pretty noteworthy," said the plaintiff's attorney, Joshua Van Kampen (pictured). "The employer-discrimination firms are very adept at getting these cases dismissed."

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